Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Maintaining and relaying critical communications between air, naval, and ground forces.
• Implementing emergency plans for natural and wartime disasters.
• Relaying command center information to high levels military and government decision makers.
• Monitoring surveillance and detection systems, such as air defense.
• Interpreting and evaluating tactical situations and making recommendations to superiors.
• Operating computer systems for targeting and launching weapons.